Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.